50 Ways To Practice Spelling Words

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50 Ways to Practice Spelling
Choose 3 different activities to do each week for your spelling contract.
Your work is due each Friday unless there is a note that says otherwise. You
may complete the activities in your Spelling journal, as long as you bring it
back to school each day. This is your “contract” for the entire year.
1. Write each word 3 times, using your best penmanship.

2. Print your spelling words with manuscript letters or cursive. Outline the
letter shape of each word with crayon or pen.
3. Draw a picture that illustrates each word and write the word below it. List
the words you did not illustrate.
4. Write all your spelling words that begin with a consonant in one list. Put
the words that begin with a vowel in another list.
5. Write each spelling word and circle the vowels.
6. List the spelling words twice alphabetically.
7. List the words twice from shortest to longest.
8. Write each word in a sentence. (words may be combined) Underline the
spelling words.
9. Write your words with crayons. Use a different color for the vowels and
for the consonants.
10. Make a flower garden. Write a spelling word on each flower.
11. Make a picture. Use spelling words in place of some of the lines to make
“hidden” words.
12. List each spelling word and write a rhyming word. List the words that
have no rhyming words.
13. Write a story using as many spelling words as you can. List those words
you did not use.
14. Write the words and tell the number of consonant sounds in each.
15. List your spelling words from easiest to hardest to learn.
16. Write your spelling words. Trace over the letters you hear.
17. Write all your spelling words that have double vowels in a list. On a
second list write the spelling words that have more than two vowels in them.
List the words with one vowel letter in a third list.
18. Write spelling words in a different shape such as a square, circle or
triangle.
19. Read all your spelling words three times, and then see how many you can
write from memory. Look at the list once more. Try to write all the remaining
words without looking again.
20. Put the spelling words with short vowel sounds in one list and long vowel
sounds in another list. If a word has more than one syllable, use the first
syllable.
21. Write each word and a synonym for it. List the words for which you
cannot find a synonym.
22. Write each spelling word and tell how many syllables you can hear.
23. Print the first letter of each word very large. Put all the other letters
inside in the right order.
24. Make a chart for the number of syllables and list each word under the
correct heading.
25. Draw a picture that shows the meaning of each spelling word. For
example, draw a picture of the sun for bright. Put the word under its
illustration.
26. Make a word-search puzzle using your words. Be sure to solve the puzzle
when you are finished.
27. Make each of your spelling words a beautiful thing by printing or writing
it as artistically as you can.
28. See how many antonyms (opposites) you can write for your spelling
words. List those words you don’t know an antonym for.
29. Figure out how much each word is worth value of each letter: AEIOUWY
= a nickel DHLNRST= a dime CFGMPV= 15 cents JKQXZ=a quarter
30. Divide the spelling words into syllables with a vowel in each syllable.
Using the dictionary check your results.
31. Write a news article, including the headline, using as many of the spelling
words as possible. Underline each spelling word. At the end of the article list
all the spelling words not used.
32. Find all the little words in several of your spelling words, as in father: fa,
fat, at, the, he, her, eat, ate, far. Do not skip any letters.
33. List your spelling words by the number of vowels in the word. Begin with
the word that has the most vowels.
34. List your spelling words by the number of consonants in the word
starting with the word that has the most consonants.
35. Find categories for the meaning of the spelling words. List the words by
category. For example, action words: go, jump, etc.
36. Write each spelling word in the code. Be sure to show a key for the code
that you are using.
37. Make a word sentence. Use the letters in a spelling word to begin each
word. For example: CAT: Charlie ate tacos.
38. Write five sentences using as many words from your spelling list as you
can. List the words you couldn’t use.
39. Scramble the letters for each word and have someone unscramble them.
40. Sort and list your spelling words in three columns. Give a title to each
column.
41. Write all your spelling words together that have something that is alike
in their spelling. For example, “little” and “middle” both end in “le”. Underline
the parts in their spelling that are alike.
42. Look in the dictionary and write the two guide words for each one of
your spelling words.
43. Look in the dictionary to find out how many meanings each spelling word
has. Write the number of meanings each word has in parenthesis after it.
Then list your spelling words from the one with the fewest meanings to the
one with the most meanings.
44. Illustrate your words by the way you print them. List the words that you
cannot illustrate.
45. Write all your spelling words. List the homonyms beside each spelling
word that has one. For example: bear and bare.
46. Someone has said, “The most beautiful words in English are......” List your
spelling words from the most beautiful word to the ugliest.
47. Alphabetize your spelling words using the last letter at the end of the
word instead of by the first letter at the beginning of the word. For
example: sofa, music, word, model, etc.
48. Sort your words into the following five groups: adjectives, nouns, verbs,
and adverbs
49. Find five ways to classify your words, as in one syllable, two syllables,
starts with a consonant, Starts with a vowel, has a ling vowel, does not have
a vowel, etc.
50. Use words from three categories in order but do not tell the categories.
A fourth category should always be labeled “Miscellaneous”. The students
find the categories, label columns on a work sheet and sort the words.
For example:
Spelling Words Category
Wednesday, yesterday, Easter Days
ball, kite, paints Playthings
candy, cake, ice cream Food
eat, ape, use Long Vowels

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1. Write each word 3 times, using your best penmanship.

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